{"id":15533,"date":"2011-10-12T02:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=15533"},"modified":"2011-10-12T02:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:22:56","slug":"yahoo-box-yahoo-japan-starts-online-storage-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/yahoo-box-yahoo-japan-starts-online-storage-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Box: Yahoo Japan Starts Online Storage Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/ebay-shakes-hands-with-yahoo-japan\/yahoo-japan-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36\" title=\"Yahoo! Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/yahoo-japan-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.co.jp\/\">Yahoo Japan<\/a>, the country&#8217;s biggest website, has launched a new service dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/box.yahoo.co.jp\/promo\/\">Yahoo Box<\/a> today. Yahoo Box is an online storage service with three plans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5GB are given for free to any user with a Yahoo Japan ID<\/li>\n<li>50GB is the maximum space premium members get for free (a Yahoo Japan premium membership costs US$4.50 monthly)<\/li>\n<li>1,000GB are priced at 300 Yen (US$3.90) per month for premium members and at 1,000 Yen (US13) for regular Yahoo Japan users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yahoo Japan says Yahoo Box users can share and access files through PCs (app and browser), smartphone (browser only), and feature phones (browser only). A special app for Android is already <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=jp.co.yahoo.android.ybox\">out<\/a>, a Yahoo Box iOS app is in the works.<br \/>\nYahoo Box competes with <a href=\"http:\/\/ndrive.naver.jp\/\">Naver N Drive<\/a>, Dropbox (which is quite popular in Japan), and other online storage systems.<br \/>\nAt the end of the first quarter of the current fiscal year, Yahoo Japan boasted 25.72 milion active user IDs (7.22 million premium members).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Japan, the country&#8217;s biggest website, has launched a new service dubbed Yahoo Box today. Yahoo Box is an online storage service with three plans: 5GB are given for free to any user with a Yahoo Japan ID 50GB is the maximum space premium members get for free (a Yahoo Japan premium membership costs US$4.50&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/yahoo-box-yahoo-japan-starts-online-storage-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yahoo Box: Yahoo Japan Starts Online Storage Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[4145,4161],"class_list":["post-15533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-yahoo-box","tag-yahoo-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}